Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-23

ments and seeds in the Committee-room,
and would have to 20 there to execute
some orders for constituents.
81 presume you mean requests" | OBJ
served.
"No ORDERS" WAS the reply. ''Tt used
! to be requests; now il is order. Ny con-
s.ituents frequently write me, ordering
garden seeds, documents, books of vari-
Gus kinds which have to buy, especially
the Revised Statutes OF the United States,
| Just the same as merchant orders q bill
OF goods he expects 10 pay for"
| Soon discovered that not seeds and
documents alone called my friend to the
capitol. He went to an officer OF the
Senate to see about the retention of an
| employe who was on the verge of dismiss
SAL Then he attempted to get into nu-
merous committee rooms to OBJ
tain information about documents
| fled there during the last Congress IN
cases now dead. Finally he drew from
his pocket a memorandum of bills
various kinds which constituents mad
requested, and he went to the document
room for them. The afternoon was fast
waning, and | observed that the Senator
did not take his hat of st any place he
visited. He had bolted right into the
room of the Cabinet officers and an
nonnced his wants without ceremony,
like lawyer enters the Office of the clerk
when the court is In session and ne has &
case at bar.
AS We were on the steps ST the east
side of the Capitol and was congratulate
ing myself upon the ending of our weari-
some trip, my statesmanic friend ex-
claimed:
1.-TWO more little things before leave
this part of the town. l have here in my
pocket letter from man who wants
place as stone-cutter under the architect
Of the capitol; also another letter from
one who wants to know if certain title
has ever been copyrighted with the Lii
brarian of Congress. Come with me to the
offices OF these officers"
Next we drove to the Coast Survey
Office, and to the Botanical Garden-tO
the former for some technical informs-
ton for g scientific constituent,
and to the latter for some buds
for g fOricuitur1list. We were now
returning in the direction of Newspaper
Row, to the business C7Dter Of the city
As the carriage whirIed along the Senator
drew forth 8 memorandum book. He
stopped at the Pennsylvania depot to in
quire the cost OF tickets 70 certain points,
making a note of it: at = commission
house he asked the price % certain prod
uce, and jOtted it down, and at q
CoiffeuT's ne priced natural hair switch of
q certain grade of wilderness, indicating
that there were aged women among the
bOLhering constituents. When | asked
him if he did the shopping for his family
he replied that he never bought anything
or priced anything for his family: that ali
ne did was for constituents Asked if he
made this much work every day for his
constituents, he replied:
"Much more than you have seen and
heard do every day. Why, read sixty
letters and dictate over forty answers be
fore left my house this morning. When
get back l will read and sign those my
secretary has written out, and dictate a
dozen more before dinner. These will be
to those 1 nave been serving on this trip
with you. For ten years 1 sat on the
bench in my state, and l do more lsw
business now than at that time"
"What part of your work do you con-
slider most annoying" l asked.
''The relations to federal offices-DrO-
curing positions and keeping men and
women in or out of them. Half of my let
tiers, taking the year around, relate to pen
siOns, One-fOurth to Offices and politics,
and one-fouHh to congressional affairs.
And q man makes three enemies to one
friend in pensions, politics and con
gressional work, when his cor
respondence is alone considered That
is to say, when he gets
letter asking him to do something he will
make three enemies to one friend in the
execution of the request. But we are
back again. We left here shortly after
ten. 1t is now but few minutes after
two. / hope the four hours we have
been together have not been without
profit, and that you are not envIoUs Of q
Senator's everyday pleasures"